Alveda King slams USA Today columnist for invoking Emmett Till in Caitlin Clark piece: 'Pure race-baiting' At her age, race activist Alveda King wasn't the least bit surprised by the Caitlin Clark opinion piece penned this week by USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour. "I've seen every kind of race-baiting that you can imagine. I'm 75 years old," the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told OutKick on Friday. Armour's column relating the murder of Emmett Till to Caitlin Clark putting black and lesbian WNBA players in physi
cal danger didn't come as a shock to a woman who has seen so much over her lifetime. King, a Fox News contributor, says this playbook by the left-wing media is all too predictable. "What people have learned to do, is to throw out inflammatory, emotional phrases that will make people emotional and forget how to think. There was no reason to throw Emmett Till's name out there. And so, that's called race-baiting," she continued. King's advice to Americans is simple: Don't be "misled by emotional turmoil without examining the facts." What are the facts here? NANCY ARMOUR'S DISASTROUS CAITLIN CLARK ARTICLE EXEMPLIFIES WHY SPORTSWRITING AND SPORTS MEDIA IS FAILING As OutKick's Dan Zaksheske has wr
itten this week, Armour has used Clark as a race-baiting target in the past. In 2024, the USA Today columnist wrote that Clark needed to "call out the toxic segment of her fan base" after an incident with DiJonai Carrington that left the Indiana Fever guard with a black eye. For some reason, Armour made Clark the villain in the situation. This season, Armour alleges, Clark is egging on her supporters to send nasty messages to WNBA players by flopping and berating refs over no-calls. Armour's narrative is clear as day: Clark is a problem because she's white, straight, and a huge swath of America believes she's the best player in the WNBA. Surely, Nancy has reached out to civil rights pund
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